St. Landry democrat., 1887-06-11
ECHOES FROM ABROAD.
Fresh Chit-Chat Compiled from Our Euro
pean Exchanges.

Fresh Chit-Chat Compiled from Our Euro
pean Exchanges.
In April ii $40 of the bone and slneW
of the British subjects left the United Ming
dom, of whom 49, 32 went to the United states
and will be lost to the empire. British Norm II
America gets 5oO2. Australasia 2.;;s's. ana al
other places 69l persons OF all these people
England supplied 1912 Scotland .;S2 ana Ire
land-which has not now 25 per cent. more pop
ulation than Scotland-1s,0S6. In April, 1850
the total number of British-born emlgraLts
was 2S,623. Commenting upon this. LoLooi'
paper says: while statesmen and DOCTORS aie
lamenting the gradual loss of physical power
among our people. as shown by the necessary VI
reducing the height of army recruits 10 hEe
feet three inches from five feet eight lnches'
which it was when the Queen cameto the throhe'
the East end of London is being inundated os
foreign paupers, filling up with human ruppsh
the tale of the population which Is belhe ue
creased by the loss of the best and purest ol
our agricultural laborers and our country artl-
sans"
A correspondent of the London Times
sends from Burmah an account of the petro-
leum-felds of that country, deahng more es
pecially with those of the Yenangyoung dls-
trict, whence is drawn the lubrlcatlng nulu
known in commerce as RangOon Oil. Inc ol
of this district is, he points out, inferior 10 the
American for lighting purposes, from the 1ac'
that it burns with a smoky flame. Its quaint )
does not affect its use as fuel, and IN buriLal
coal is both very dear and very inferior
Hitherto the oil has been worked by the ruue
native methods: being drawn up with rope
and bucket from holes into which II MAJ
percolated during the night. 1t is suggested
hat 20
steps to work mines in the scientific American
manner, by deep borings. in order TO SET
whether there is sufficient supply to 1ustl1!
considerable outlay of capital.
The great frequency of fires in Hun
gary by which whole towns are destroyed ane
thousands made homeless is explained by tn'
character of buildings there. A Magyar village
consists of two immense rows of wooden nuts
planted side by side. perhaps for miles; 10
some of these Alfold villages" contain 10000 o.
10000 people. The tarred and painted cottages
matched with straw and baked by the fierce
summer sun of the great plain. burn like TIN
der when they once catch fire. 1t might b
worth while for the Magyar government t.
distribute supply of chemical fire extingulsh
ers in their county towns: for water. on som
parts of this dry and treeless plain. is only TO %
got from deep wells and artificial reservoirs
and is precious commodity,
There are not left in the world man,
streets in which the houses date from the thr
teenth century. Such street is the pok
little thoroughfare known as the Rue de /
Verge Nore at Brussels, which is about to o
entirely demolished Originally it was qua
on the Senne. and was called the Qual au
Tourbes. The more modern name was derive
fafu Of ha
houses Several other tortuous streets in tn
neighborhood of the Halles Centrales and tn
Church of St. Catherine are being pulled dow
bodily to make way for broader and healthle
thoroughfares.
Lord Dufferin and his suite had na1
row escape recently at Dehra Doom, in lndlf
! 1t appears that a swarm OF lrate bees ia
amuck among the escort and attendants. an
routed them, horse and foot. Horses boltet
vehicles were smashed, ladies and childre
| shrieked, and one poor charger belonging [
an officer of the Ghoorkas was SO badly stun
| that it lay down, and "smudge' fire had t
be lighted round it before the bees were drive
| off. The viceroy and suite had just passe
| into the church. in order to attend service, be
| fore the apian legions delivered the charge.
The board of directors of the South
eastern Railway Company,o of England, recent
sought to display their truly loyal enthusiast
by subscribing 5000 toward jubilee funt
| Thereupon some stockholders brought the cas-
before the courts and decision was rendere
that the directors had no right to spend an
money except for purposes set forth in tn
charter of the company. The idea that boar
| of railway directors cannot do as they pleas
with the money of the stockholders is an III
| heard-of thing in this country.
In the recent German elections, a
hough they were not allowed to hold an
mass-meetings Or to issue any addresses, tn
Socialists polled 3,12S votes S.9 per cent. {
the total vote cast. The largest vote cast b
any single party was 1,6''7,919 by the Nations
| Liberals.
The London policemen are becoming s
dissatisfied with the poor wages paid ther
that recently they held mass-meeting in Hyd
Park, when they were addressed by Socialis
leaders.